The Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) Speaker Series is hosted by the Eck Institute for Global Health to bring awareness to local and global health-related issues that impact vulnerable populations.

This is the first of two seminars featuring Dr. Patience Afulani, assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco. All members of the Notre Dame community are welcome to attend.

About Dr. Afulani:

Dr. Patience Afulani is an Assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Her primary research focuses on the social and health system factors underpinning inequities in reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and child health (RMNCH) outcomes. She also has a special interest in person-centered care—responsive and respectful care—and health workforce wellbeing and motivation. Her research has extended the evidence on how RMNCH outcomes are shaped by the quality of care in health facilities as well as by social determinants and contributed to interventions to improve RMNCH outcomes and reduce inequities. Dr. Afulani led the development of the person-centered maternity care (PCMC) scale which is widely used by researchers across the globe. Her work on this scale as well as other scales for perinatal care has contributed to improved measurement of person-centered reproductive health care.